On 15/04/07, Stephen Bain stephen.bain@gmail.com wrote:
On 4/15/07, Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
I'm glad WP:LAP exists - it's good to be aware of policies that overlap. But merging them obviously requires a fair bit of discussion.
Yes. Unfortunately some of the things listed there don't actually overlap, as in this case. The page about sock puppetry doesn't overlap at all with the page about selecting usernames. They are all broadly to do with user accounts, but they're diverse enough to be suited to a main summary page rather than all being dumped into the one page.
I'd call that a bug in the system. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:LAP looks like a damn fine idea to me. Also avoids subtle POV forks in policy space.
Now to eventually resolve everything down to NPOV, ATT, NPA, AGF and "Don't Bite The Newbies."
btw: jargon *always* bites newbies and needs conscious minimisation.
- d.